A Pakistan-based Islamic militant group fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks in the United States, said AFP.
The hardline Lashkar-i-Taiba said its suicide bombers had hijacked jets which plunged into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Tuesday morning, in attacks which it is feared killed thousands.
There was no way to verify the claim independently, and US officials have pointed the finger of blame at Afghan-based Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden.
"The attack was carried out by our fidayeen (suicidal group) led by commander Abu Samama," Lashkar spokesman Khalid Saif said in a statement faxed to AFP in southern Pakistan.
"The attacks on the World Trade Center and other places were not an act of terrorism but an Islamic duty."
In a phone call to Al Jazeera satellite channel’s office in Amman, a caller who was “speaking Arabic with an accent” claimed the responsibility of the Japanese Red Army for the series of terrorist attacks on US vital buildings.
The communist group said that the attacks came in retaliation for US atomic bombs that killed thousands of Japanese in the World War II in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Albawaba.com
